Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

["Eckert, Robert G SPC RES" <robert.g.eckert AT us.army.mil>]

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Jonathan,

Thank you, that is it. 

I ran across Percy quoting Kierkegaard (Converstaions with WP, p.67)while I 
was looking.

"Every man has to stand in front of the house of his childhood in order to 
recover himself"

Robert


On 11/13/10, Jonathan Potter  <jopomojo AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert,
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> Could this be the passage you had in mind:
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> Lost in the Cosmos, p. 146-7 (From "The Orbiting Self" section): "Only one 
> example comes to mind of a writer who, though performing at a very high 
> level of twentieth-century art, nevertheless manages to live on one of the 
> few remaining islands of a more or less intact culture, in the very house 
> where she was born, to enter into an intercourse with the society around 
> her as naturally as the Chartres sculptor, to appear as herself, her self, 
> the same self, both to fellow writer and fellow townsman: Eudora Welty.  
> Perhaps also William Carlos Williams.  If you do not think this remarkable, 
> imagine that you have lived your entire life in the house where you were 
> born.  For an American, an uncanny, even an unsettling fantasy."
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> Best regards,
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> Jonathan Potter
> Spokane WA
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> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Eckert, Robert G SPC RES 
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> > I seem to recall Percy saying something about missing living in the house 
> > you grew up in. The house I grew up in is on the market and has me 
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